Philosophical Traditions - A Text with Readings - 2nd edition

Summary: PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITIONS introduces students to philosophy by combining the insights of Louis Pojman, one of contemporary philosophy's foremost teachers, with an impressive, yet not overwhelming collection of primary source excerpts drawn from the canon of Western philosophy. Organized topically, this book encourages students to critically explore all of the major lines of thinking and all of the major schools of thoughts that have formed around philosophy's basic fi

elds--the philosophy of religion, epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and the meaning of life. With readings of manageable length for today's typical undergraduate student, Pojman's commentaries in PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITIONS provide straightforward demonstrations of the implications of the book's featured arguments and ideas. New to the Edition

This edition features new chapters on Aristotle's paradigmatic importance in the origins of philosophy, Kant's epistemology, and Schopenhauer's idealism.

Features

The book includes a well-rounded collection of contemporary sources (Searle, Churchland, Parfit, Rawls, Nagel, and others), in addition to classical works--including a chapter on existentialism and the meaning of life.

An introductory section on the rudiments of logic and an appendix on writing philosophy papers establish a critical framework for students' engagements with philosophy.

Rich introductions to each section and balanced selections that provide at least two divergent viewpoints on each subject help students stay on focus as they explore the diversity of philosophical thought.

Summary: PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITIONS introduces students to philosophy by combining the insights of Louis Pojman, one of contemporary philosophy's foremost teachers, with an impressive, yet not overwhelming collection of primary source excerpts drawn from the canon of Western philosophy. Organized topically, this book encourages students to critically explore all of the major lines of thinking and all of the major schools of thoughts that have formed around philosophy's basic fields--the philosophy of religion, epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and the meaning of life. With readings of manageable length for today's typical undergraduate student, Pojman's commentaries in PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITIONS provide straightforward demonstrations of the implications of the book's featured arguments and ideas. New to the Edition

This edition features new chapters on Aristotle's paradigmatic importance in the origins of philosophy, Kant's epistemology, and Schopenhauer's idealism.

Features

The book includes a well-rounded collection of contemporary sources (Searle, Churchland, Parfit, Rawls, Nagel, and others), in addition to classical works--including a chapter on existentialism and the meaning of life.

An introductory section on the rudiments of logic and an appendix on writing philosophy papers establish a critical framework for students' engagements with philosophy.

Rich introductions to each section and balanced selections that provide at least two divergent viewpoints on each subject help students stay on focus as they explore the diversity of philosophical thought.

Part II: THE BEGINNING OF PHILOSOPHY: THE ANCIENT GREEKS: THE SOPHISTS, SOCRATES, PLATO AND ARISTOTLE.

3. The Rise of the Sophists. 4. A Portrait of a Philosopher: Socrates. 5. The Philosophy of Plato: Knowledge and Reality. 6. Aristotle.

Part III: PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION. An Introduction. Arguments for the Existence of God.

7. The Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God. 8. The Teleological Argument for the Existence of God. 9. The Ontological Argument for the Existence of God. 10. The Argument from Religious Experience. 11. The Problem of Evil. 12. Faith and Reason.

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